Lumia 930 up for pre-order on Carphone Warehouse

The Lumia 930 is now available for pre-order on UK's High Street retailer Carphone Warehouse, with a launch date set for July 17. The device is available for no upfront cost on select monthly plans, with the retailer offering lucrative trade-in offers.

Carphone Warehouse is giving away a Nokia Wireless Bundle with every purchase of the Lumia 930. The free bundle includes a Lumia wireless speaker and a portable wireless charging plate in addition to a £20 Windows App Store voucher. The retailer is offering three color variants of the device: black, green and orange.

The tariff and monthly plans are determined by your usage and the carrier you select. For the Lumia 930, your carrier options include EE, Orange, O2, Vodafone and T-Mobile.

I got already mine Lumia 930 yesterday from Estonian provider EMT local shop and its perfect! There is stock for black and orange edition and black is very represantive - no shame iPhone5S or M8... Link....

I suspect we'll see SD card support still only making it in on certain phones. The general approach these days seems to be that if you have cloud storage (OneDrive) and Music Streaming (Xbox Music or MixRadio) then why do you need masses of local space?

I work in London and spend 2-3 hours commuting each day. Streaming music is often not practical, especially when on the Underground. Personally - I can happily live without SD card support as I tend to use the very good and useful offline feature that Nokia Music provide. I try to stay clear of Xbox Music, ever since the experience has been downgraded from WP7!

However, what frustrates me is the fact that I can't refresh my offline Nokia music collection while I'm out and about - the stupid, stupid, stupid restriction that MS have added prevent me from downloading any more than 50MB or so on a data (non Wifi) connection. I have unlimited data - I should be able to download as much as I like on MY phone and on MY tariff. I understand why this restriction has been put in place and it would make sense that this is the default setting - but we should have the ability to turn this off. I have 32 GB of onboard storage which is more than enough to store a few Nokia Music mixes, but I want the ability to be able to refresh these - when it suits me.

I know this is slightly steering away from the topic of the original comment - but due to this silly restriction that MS put in place to prevent you downloading data and using your phone in a modern and meaningful way, SD card support would actually go some way to helping my particular situation.

Out of the two - adding SD card support to all phones OR just allow a setting to turn off the max download cap - I would say the later option is cheaper and much more practical to implement!

I know but for me I don't stream music my collection of tunes is all mp3 converted from a growing collection of cds were talking in the hundreds I use try he mix radio as well its great for discovering new bands. One drive I barely use and xbox music just use to play my music through but that's just me

Not on the Three network? They never get any windows phones at launch. Had to wait 4 months after the 920 was launched cause they wouldn't stock it. Before anyone says go to another network, Three is the only one in my area which works. Lol

i dont think Three is going to stock this phone but i could be wrong due to customer demand, due to the fact Nokia took too long to release this handset, it was delay after delay sothey invasted in other handsets. Thats what i heard

I ordered the exact same tariff and I'm paying £33 a month, how did you manage to get the cost down? Although I didn't have to pay any upfront cost... The freebies you get with this is just insane, I love it so much. :D

To be honest it is hard to gauge, they have been rolling out the update in select countries and select models under a pilot. Why they have adopted this approach is bizarre, as they should have had the rollout perfected by now given we had the 7.x updates and the gdr updates for 8.0. Then again the routes MS takes is not always logical lol.

I was going to order this through O2's website, but as I'm on O2 through Carphone Warehouse and they have beaten O2 to the punchline. I think I will preorder my device now and hopefully I can get it ordered to my work address and play around with it whilst at work. I am soooo excited now. :D

You can buy off your contract on it. Check out the product page and you will see that you can select your carrier and other details, it will then let you know if you are elegible for an early upgrade. If you are, they will give you a number to call where you can make you're preorder. Hope this helps you out. :)

I think I might wait to see what other places come out with for pre-order deals. The freebies being bundled (extra charging mat, store credit & speaker) is a Microsoft supported deal so should be available most places. The £100 cashback seems to be unique to CW though so might see if anyone else comes up with something better .. if not might give CW a call and see if this offer is available off contract :)

Hmm, well it was Microsoft who announced the bundle freebies in their own press release. That could mean they've done a deal with the network operators, or it could be they're bundling the phone with these accessories and it's just Carphone warehouse who have decided to try and push people toward contract.

I'll wait and see what the other sites come up with when they launch their own pre-orders!

There have been leaks for the McLaren, nothing official from Microsoft. And everyone knows there is a new iPhone coming out in autumn so they will wait for that if so inclined. Not to say they haven't fumbled the launch somewhat but the other points you make just aren't correct.

That's a lot of games. 90% of my games I've never even played. I just downloaded them because they were free that day. I sincerely hope you won't be playing games on your phone while on holiday! You should be out there chatting to girls. As for maps, they aren't particularly big unless you're going round the whole world. I don't think there are any high end phones with an SD slot (except rubbish brands like HTC).

I want to download maps on my phone and dont bother before going if I have the maps on my phone. Also i dont want to bother with downloading some game or app. i want to play it when I want to. the 1520 btw has a card slot. with a 20MP camera or 41MP camera they better put a SD card in there. Shot a short video the other day of a building walkthroug.. 500MB taken already. Have to move all the stuff onto OneDrive and my 27 GB are nearly full as well